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The atmosphere heated up considerably between the party leaders in Aftonbladet’s big election debate.
Accusations of lying and questioning of each other’s sense of morality through the studio, and Ebba Busch likening the situation to a horror movie.
Here we have collected some of the several crescendos of the debate.
Aftonbladet’s party leader debate had been promised in advance to be the toughest of the election campaign – and few of the viewers who were hoping for heated exchanges may have been disappointed by the outcome.
The party leaders, who themselves had to choose their own topic to debate, clashed time after time on issues concerning both electricity prices and migration as well as welfare and each other’s moral compasses.
– I don’t care much for your moral compass, said Annie Lööf to Jimmie Åkesson and accused the Sweden Democratic party leader of smearing Sweden and wanting to introduce collective punishment.
– This is like witnessing Magdalena Andersson’s horror film live, said Ebba Busch in reference to Nooshi Dadgostar’s demands in the debate that her party should be awarded ministerial posts in a possible Magdalena Andersson government.
Spreading dung
And when Ulf Kristersson and Magdalena Andersson clashed over the issue of whether a social democratic government would introduce a property tax, the prime minister accused his main competitor of risking untruths.
– I understand that it is tough not to have better opinion figures after eight years in opposition. But it is not leadership to then spread dung about other parties that are completely wrong, said Magdalena Andersson to Ulf Kristersson.
To name a few examples.
In addition, the atmosphere heated up between Aftonbladet’s moderator Robert Aschberg and several of the participants. Not least Jimmie Åkesson who accused Robert Aschberg of lying that in a debate article entitled “Muslims are our greatest foreign threat” he would have conveyed the message that Muslims are Sweden’s greatest threat.